Great DIY picture ideas on how to take maternity photos at home.

Not sure about heading to a professional studio and getting a set of maternity portraits done? Whatever your reasons, whether they be worries about your budget, that you don’t feel well or you’re unsure about being photographed, you’re right to consider them. To create beautiful maternity portraits in a studio, a photographer has to have a very good understanding of lighting, poses and editing.

Today we will talk about how to take maternity photos at home. A little DIY project for you. Possibly discuss pregnancy photo shoot ideas with husband. Get him involved.

The idea of sharing tips for creating simple DIY maternity portraits has been lingering on my mind for the past year or so. Finally, along with undertaking another big maternity project, I decided that it’s the perfect time to release this material. You will find some finished images with set-up diagrams to help you to replicate them. These should give you a good sense of where the photographer (your partner) should be and the setting we used.

What we will be covering today:

I want this ideas sheet to be very simple and basic. Nothing too fancy, no fancy lights, no fancy cameras, just a simple understanding of light and some basic camera settings. Everything it features will be something you can do at home.

We will need a camera, daylight and (ideally) a tripod with a remote control to trigger the camera. If you have a simple “point and shoot” camera, then a self timer will do.

Hello everyone. Today I would like to talk about maternity mini sessions. In coming month I will be raising more awareness of creating beautiful maternity photos. New mums always try to steer away from getting beautiful pregnancy photos. In next few weeks I will announce a big poll and new mums will be able to tell me more about why they resist to get maternity photos. But that is still in future and today we are talking about mini sessions.

Hello everyone. I’m catching up with all my lovely summer work and today wanted to share a nice artistic pregnancy photography pictures done at my Edinburgh studio. Some of them are more simple, but loved this session so much. [Read more…]